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unexistanceon Tails 3.0 Released

since there's no reply, I'm guessing it's because Tor Browser is using Firefox ESR, even though Fx ESR are guaranteed for a security update...

any other reason?

unexistanceon History of Computing at Bell Labs (1997)

from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636134

A paper covering the earlier period is A History of Computing Research at Bell Laboratories (1937-1975): http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/99.pdf

relevant article : http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/innovation-...

unexistanceon When TV Logos Were Physical Objects

he needs to document this down somewhere, or do a youtube channel or something

unexistanceon Fidget Spinners: Why Being Interesting Can Do More for You Than Being Useful

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/638415231/classic-fidge...

unexistanceon Google.ai

no ads for me, used uBlock Origin too, but I used below URL

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site:google.ai

unexistanceon Tor Browser 7.0a4 is released

not over 40 yet BUT I do love readability-enhancements like this :D

* use Firefox 'Reader View'; OR

* use this outline.com bookmarklet

  javascript:(function()%7Bwindow.location.href%20%3D%20'https%3A%2F%2Foutline.com%2F'%20%2B%20window.location.href%7D)()

unexistanceon How Craigslist Makes Money

duly noted

I just find it faster to use keyboard instead of mouse :D

unexistanceon Generation UX – How to make websites age-friendly

besides the floating header that eats-up my precious vertical screen real-estate, the blog content seems great...

thanks for the link

unexistanceon How Craigslist Makes Money

exactly

but I also changed the below in about:config

* browser.display.background_color

* browser.display.foreground_color

unexistanceon How Craigslist Makes Money

very nice, wish could've vote more :D

set as bookmark shortcut in Fx already :D

unexistanceon How Craigslist Makes Money

Firefox + NoScript + Reader View seems to help

tho I used uBlock to forbid 'weird' stuff

ah I've set my UI to always use my colors :D white over black background

unexistanceon The evolution of Unix architecture in two diagrams

one of his software seems interesting, outwit[0]. Windows data manipulation via command line to be used with UnxUtils[1]

p/s: Yes I know there's PowerShell / WMIC

[0] https://www.spinellis.gr/sw/outwit/

[1] http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

unexistanceon Opera is Reborn

are you talking about the 12.x versions? the pre-Chrome era?

unexistanceon Lost Generation: The Relay Computers

"But I do believe that much wisdom can be sought by looking into the past"

exactly why I'm learning AWK via the gray book

unexistanceon Instead of containers, give me strong config and deploy primitives

wisdom from (not-so-distant) past

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13262045

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12804185

unexistanceon Intel platforms from 2008 onwards have a remotely exploitable security hole

reminds me of CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual[0]

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...

unexistanceon Browserprint: Browser fingerprint tool now can guess client OS even when spoofed

found it

http://arnon.dk/malicious-traffic-detection-using-traffic-fi...

unexistanceon Palantir No Longer Works With The NSA

because of Peter[0], otherwise you're right. Unless there's something else non-American like me cannot see :p

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

unexistanceon A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aces_Studio

Apparently it's budget cut, which is weird since we know MS are always swimming in cash...

unexistanceon A visual brief on icon history through different GUIs and operating systems

long load time

cannot scroll by space / PageDown -> mouse click & grab... pretty bad for keyboard navigation BUT that means it's touch-oriented

nice icons / graphics, as a retro computing & minimalist wallpapers fan, worth the loading time

unexistanceon Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Done

the worst part? affecting children, in which Yes it's the parent's responsibilities...

But there only so much parents can do AND there is this thing called 'sense of belonging' that influence kids to be as much as their peers

unexistanceon Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Done

important enough that I have saved it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11762946

"I think of different communication media as having different urgencies / time constants. Emails are a daily report. My phone's notifications are an hourly report. Notifications which I forward to my watch are the instant things. Be sure to mercilessly "mute" most apps from bugging you on your wrist. With this setup, I never feel the urge to check my phone. If there is something important, it would've buzzed my wrist."

unexistanceon Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

Hey done the same with my Fx profile/database too, keep migrating it from quite some time ago, manually backed-up from time to time

Recently used the bookmark-keyword thingy, pretty good BUT I'm still used to remembering URLs :p

Heck, one of the reason I'm not migrating to Chrome is... Bookmark shortcut key [alt]+[b] combined with js bookmarklet

e.g: remove floating div, press [alt]+[b] -> [3] done

unexistanceon On the typography of flight deck documentation – NASA (1992)

my firefox & terminal (& wallpapers) are all dark

I really cannot bare to read anymore in sites with bright background

actual dead-trees are a different beast :D

unexistanceon Alan Kay's reading list

I accidentally find that if my phone is off / off-data, I can read the books that I want, BUT it'll take some time to adjust my mind, a week in my case

I intend to do that from time to time as the to-read list is growing :D

unexistanceon The Debugging Mindset

"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"

Timeless

If you have to use 'clever' hacks, the least you can do is justify it in the comment

unexistanceon War by any means: The story of DARPA

I can only wonder what DARPA are doing currently behind all the secrecy, assuming whatever disclosed in the book is, let say, 20 years back technology.

p/s: there doesn't seems to be a lot of red-tape in approving whatever the 'researchers' wants to do, at least in the past

unexistanceon Apple has acquired Workflow, an automation tool for iPad and iPhone

https://www.macstories.net/tag/workflow/ for the reading type

p/s: I'm just doing this for my own bookmark :D first time reading about this app

EDIT: more links

https://www.reddit.com/r/workflow/ | http://www.imore.com/how-use-workflow-ios-when-you-dont-know... |

unexistanceon Overkill: Java as a first programming language (2010)

thanks for the much-needed perspective

unexistanceon The Other Half

I'm guessing this should be applicable in bookmarklet too?